The website does not have all of the new features just yet, but if youre interested in seeing what they are, download their new app, or update your own if you already have it.

Check out the video of the new features:

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Tell us what you think!

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On March 1st 2009 we made our very first post “Welcome to CuteGeek.com!” and in these two years, we’ve come a long way since that very first welcome post. At first we were worried no one would visit us (who wouldn’t worry) but as the days turned into weeks, and weeks into months, we realized we shouldn’t worry so much.

Over the past two years we have featured Brilliant women such as Ann Finnie (HP) and Leslie Sobon (AMD), and brought you reviews on the 2011 Lincoln MKX and The Netgear Stora.

You guys have also had the opportunity to enjoy the Girls out Loud Podcast hosted by Maya and Cristina.

We wouldn’t be the site we are today with out the help of all the ladies who blog for us!

To celebrate our birthday we are going to have a twit-away! Get it?! Giveaways on twitter

Every Friday in the month of March we will give away a prize to one of our twitter followers on Twitter. @CuteGeek is our Twitter Handle follow us and you’ll be entered automatically.

The first 3 Fridays (4th, 11th, and 18th) we will give one lucky follower a $25 gift card, on the 4th Friday which is the 25th we will give away an Amazon Kindle Wi-Fi. For more information on the Kindle visit http://www.amazon.com.

We may also have random giveaways during the entire month so make sure to follow us and thank you for being part of CuteGeek.com

Remember, we do this because we love it – we love technology and love bringing you the latest ‘happenings’ in the industry. If there’s something missing on the site, or if you want to recommend anything, or simply give us kudos – do not hesitate to email me RadirisD@cutegeek.com/comment on the posts/comment on our youtube videos – thanks again for supporting us all

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It’s rare now-a-days I stumble upon a website and think that it’s pretty cool. I recently found out about this unique website called Ustream.tv and had to check it out.  Ustream is a live interactive video broadcast website that allows anyone with a camera and internet to broadcast to a worldwide audience.  The website was originally started by 2 US Army Officers that wanted to find a way for soldiers to interact live with all their loved ones all at the same time.  In 2006 Ustream was born and an instant hit with public figures and celebrities.  Some of Ustreams users that are in the public eye (to name are few) are Obama, Hilary Clinton, Ashton Kutcher, Diddy, and many more (not to mention cutegeek)!  

I have to admit once I heard about this I was pumped!  My parents, siblings, and in-laws back in Texas have web-cams; what took me so long to find Ustream?  I also realized I HAD to tell my cousin who recently got deployed to Iraq about this! Imagine how awesome that would be for us family members to keep in touch with her while she is over there (till 2011 I might add)!

It takes roughly 2 minutes to set up an account per the website so I tested that out first.  It asks for allot of information and frankly it took me 30 seconds longer as I had no idea on cutegeeks Twitter and Facebook URLs.  As soon as I set our account up I made my way to my dashboard.  Here is what it looks like when you first reach your dashboard.

Immediately I wanted to test “the create a show” option and set it up giving it a name, cutegeek logo, category, content of the broadcast or recording, and tags (we must not forget how important those tags are).  You can then create a design for your show, create off air clips for when you are not broadcasting, stream media, schedule your show and see your shows matrix.  After I set it all up I had our own little cutegeek channel on ustream.  I named our first channel cutegeek review and previewed our channel (in pink for cutegeek.com of course). Here is a screen shot of our channel. from the users perspective.

Now it was time to test out the recording and/broadcasting feature.  I used my Dell XPS 1330 notebook with integrated camera and began to record off air (since I had no followers yet). All you do is hit broadcast now and it directs you to the recording/ broadcasting window.  Readers please note you have to allow ustreamaccess to your camera in order to broadcast; at first I denyed it and realized you have to accept it! In the first video on the cutegeek review channel you will see I am just testing it to see how it looks and works.  All you do is hit record, do your broadcast and then preview it to make sure it look good.  You can also edit it after you are done broadcasting it.

My next mission is to get more followers through our facebook page and twitter. After I entered the information I had to wait a while for it to post to my accounts. I got ancy out of excitement and ended up just posting it myself out of excitement for this new site.

On Ustream you can broadcast live and have your audience interact (even have a co-host); record off air and post, show slide shows, and use your mobile device to view, record, broadcast and send updates to Twitter, Facebook, Ustream and YouTube. Its a pretty cool website and I plan to do a live broadcast of me playing the new Beatles Rockband I just received plus future unboxing of new products.  Check it out cutegeek fans and become followers here!

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Do you Twitter?

At this point, with all the hubbub about Twitter all over the news and mainstream media in general, everybody and their mom knows what Twitter is. But do they use it? While there are over 25 million users of the service already, 80% of accounts have fewer than 10 followers which implies that the majority of such users are only followers, and not Twitter “leaders.” Couple this with the fact that many folks hop onto Twitter to see what all the fuss is about, don’t get into the groove of “leading” a social stream in this manner, and go inactive, and you get the picture. Maybe it’s not as wildfire as everybody makes it out to be?

I Twitter, for SURE. I love it. I like pulling out my phone when something random happens to me and I want to share it with my friends. I like quick blasting the name of a song I’m listening to or the link to the news story I’ve just been shocked by or laughed aloud at. I even ask for advice.

So me, I’m on the bandwagon. But I know Radiris, geek though she may be, is NOT! Whattup, Radiris? I’m callin you out.

Do you Twitter? Leave it in the comments.

(And it you do, follow me! I’m Papayamaya.)

PS: Tweet is SO not the accepted term for it anymore, a la here, but I like it anyway! So there.

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Yeah yeah I know this isn’t a new product but I love my HP Ipaq 910 Business Messenger!  Actually after seeing my friend throw a fit the entire weekend and threatening to throw a phone out the window (will not mention brand but its apparently everything but a phone);  I sat there content with my phone.  Yes my phone may have minor problems like its not loud enough over my hip hop music and that may be a user error.  Also, call me crazy but I kinda like listening to my ringer and tend to miss calls while looking at my phone dancing along to the ring tone.  I also do this in my condo’s elevators and have a good idea that security is cracking up at me. 

Here is the deal, I love buttons and I love touch screen; to dial with no buttons is just something my fingers cannot understand. Also this pocket PC has 3G wireless technology.  Plus I love that the screen is 2.46-inch transmissive TFT 65,000 color 320 x 240 pixel touch panel display with LED backlight.  Furthermore Window’s Mobile 6.1 plus all other software included is great and I can tweet and facebook so much faster!  Did I mention I have 4 different email accounts set up on my phone…that truly makes life convenient.  The camera on the phone to me is impressive with 3 Megapixel, CMOS sensor, auto focus, and 4X digital zoom.

In a land of your butt is calling I have to say to check this phone out…its perfect for those like me that need buttons and a touch screen but also locks. Its light and small but also has very clean lines!

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For the Cute Geeks that are heading to Austin for South By Southwest Interactive, there is a group of fellow Geeks that are taking the convention by storm…and nerf darts.

Andrew McCollum, a co-founder of Facebook, has concocted a plan for an interactive assassin game. Once you receive your target (over direct message, of course) set your fun gun to stun and prepare to embark on your journey. If you see someone you’d like to target instead, send a direct message “d assn target @username”

You can keep tabs on the game by following @assn on Twitter, or at a interface that can be found here which also provides rules, bot commands, and activity.

via [ZDNET]

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From Comedy Central’s Daily Show to CNN, it seems like most people are a flutter about Twitter.  And since I’m not one to shy away from social anythings (online or in real life), I’ve put my hand in and dabbled quite a bit with it.

For those fellow Cute Geekettes who are still a little dubious about this whole Twitter Craze (and truthfully a little confused about why it’s even relevant or important) there are a multitude of people who are quick to tell you what it is.  As for why it’s important, however, a recent article by Michael Arrington really sums it up nicely.

His blog post today explains that everyone should start thinking about Twitter as a Search Engine.

My first reaction when I read the headline was confusion.  For me personally, I think of a search engine as a nifty little Internet butler that brings me what I need.  Picture of a dandelion for my slideshow?  Check.  Information on the weather in Madagascar?  Done.  How is Twitter a search engine?

However, as he puts it:

“More and more people are starting to use Twitter to talk about brands in real time as they interact with them. And those brands want to know all about it, whether to respond individually (The W Hotel pestered me until I told them to just leave me alone), or simply gather the information to see what they’re doing right and what they’re doing wrong.”

I’d go a step further and think of it this way: whereas MSN, Google, Yahoo! and other search engine sites are the vehicles that take us down the Information highway, Twitter is a way to move us down the alleyways of personal neighborhoods and thoughts.

In other words, if I were a corporation I would use Twitter to see the Right Here, Right Now conversations that are a flutter.  If I were in the midst of an event I’d be curious to see the simultaneous reactions of people around me (or in general, reactions from the crowd).  If I were to just use it for basic personal purposes, it would be a way to tell my friends where I was, what I was up to, or even be the first to share the latest viral video.

If I were a corporation, individual, or just an Internet junkie, I’d use search engines for basic, static information – whether it’s searching for the latest posts and trends, analysis of the latest Mavericks game, or answers on Wikipedia.

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